Liebster Award, thank you Tazein!

Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Liebster Award.

Thank you so much, my dear blogger friend!

The rules of the Liebster Award:

1. Add the award logo to your blog.
2. Say 11 things about yourself.
3. Answer the 11 questions by the person who nominated you.
4. Create 11 new questions.
5. Pass the award onto 11 other blogs, link to them, and let them know.

11 things about me:

1. I have many sources for my blog: including hundreds of RSS feeds, twitter subscriptions, eMail …
2. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country	Views
United States	82
Jamaica	38
United Kingdom	15
Canada	14
Australia	12
Sri Lanka	8
Tunisia	7
India	5
Netherlands	5
Indonesia	5
Thailand	4
Iraq	4
Mexico	3

3. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,400
United Kingdom	523
Canada	306
Jamaica	178
Australia	153
Tunisia	134
India	108
Netherlands	89
Greece	84
Sweden	76
Germany	69
France	58
Spain	44
New Zealand	43
Singapore	39
Armenia	39
Italy	38
Ireland	33
Indonesia	33
Philippines	27
Norway	27
Romania	25

4. Which blog posts attracted most visits this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		501
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		115
Boston bomb horror, pretext for Islamophobic violence		91
Monsanto threatens food security, Internet petition		74
Irish anti-austerity victory		63
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		56
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		43
Best Moment Award, thanks supernova!		43
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		39
Workers shot in Greece for protesting unpaid wages		37
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		37
One Boston teenage terrorist, and everyone’s civil liberties		35
About		35

5. Which sites referred most to my blog this week?

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		1,359
WordPress.com Reader		172
Google		148
2012indyinfo.com		127
mail.yahoo.com		62
google.co.uk		52
WordPress Dashboard		48
topix.com		30
Facebook		28
google.ca		25
google.co.in		17
Twitter		14
argylesock.wordpress.com		11

6. To which other sites did my blog refer most this week?

Clicks for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

URL	Clicks
en.wikipedia.org	30
r.zemanta.com	13
avaaz.org	10
secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_monsanto_nd4/?bHFhfab&v=24248	10
transcendingbordersblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/best-moment-award1.jpg	6
independent.co.uk	5
wildlifeextra.com	4
dailymail.co.uk	4
maps.google.com	3
bbc.co.uk	3
wsws.org	3
momentmatters.com	3
allaboutbirds.org	2
nature.com	2
planetsave.com/2013/04/06/face-sized-tarantula-spider-discovered-in-sri-lanka-already-threatened-with-extinction-from-deforestation/	2
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061025.lampreyfossil.shtml	2
telegraph.co.uk	2
csmonitor.com	2

7. Which search terms did Internauts use most this week to find my site?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Search	Views
iguana	23
sri lanka new spider	14
bahrain prostitution	8
watergate scandal	8
lady liuwa	8
prostitution in bahrain	6
austerity cartoon	6
bishop john francis scandal	5
new spider species	5
new spider species in sri lanka	5
new spider species 2013	5
poisonous caterpillars	5
dinosaur bones	5
caterpillars	5

8. Who commented most at my blog recently?

oasien		43
prayingforoneday		40
BeWithUs		22
narhvalur		22
2embracethelight		19
Clanmother		13

9. Which of my blog posts got most comments?

Post	Comments
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks oasien!	40
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Shaun!	37
Marsh tits, parakeets, starlings and sanderlings	36
Awards	36
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl	32
Somali police rape woman, then jail her	29
Versatile Blogger Award, thanks tuttacronaca!	28
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Ina Helgiu!	27
175,000 visits at this blog	27
First godwits, redshank of 2013	27
Red fox den webcam	27

* Based on the 1000 most recent comments.

10. Some more WordPress statistics on comments at my blog:

Comments per month:	1,088
Total comments:	53,906
Most active recent day:	April 4, 2013
Most active time of day:	15:00

11. In my blog, there are now 1,069 posts in the category Women’s issues.

Here are Tazein’s 11 questions for me:

1-How many siblings, if any, do you have? One.

2-Do you love music? Yes, see here.

3-What is your most vivid childhood memory? Seeing redwings on a frozen meadow.

4-What helps you to relax? Watching birds.

5-Do you believe in good luck? Sometimes, I have it; sometimes I don’t 🙂

6-What is your favorite color? Red.

7-What is that one thing you feel strongly about? Having peace instead of wars.

8-Are you content with what you have? Yes.

9-Are you all holding jobs? Sort of.

10-Are you happy with your current life? Yes!

11-What is your biggest dream in life? To see birds in Svalbard.

My 11 new questions for my nominees are:

1. Have you ever seen a dinosaur in a museum?

2. If so, what species was it?

3. Which person, dead now, would you like to meet, if it would be possible?

4. Which person, dead now, would you not like to meet, even if it would be possible?

5. What is your favourite city?

6. What is your favourite area of natural beauty?

7. What is your favourite painting?

8. What is your favourite sculpture?

9. If you could travel in a spacecraft, to where in space would you like to go?

10. What is your favourite food?

11. What was/is your favourite subject at school?

My 11 nominees are:

1. antilandscaper

2.  the CITIZENS of FASHION

3. Cheeni Thoughts

4. shedreamsingreenblog

5. Kenya Birding

6. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

7. Viața Prin Ochi De Femeie

8. Keep or Pitch?

9. OnePointSafety

10. Micheline’s Blog ~ Art, music, books, history & current events

11. Afterburn

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